OPS 0999 (KH-4 Corona mission 9056), a U.S. NRO film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with the Hitchhiker 2 (P-11 4201) ELINT hitchhiker. Thrust-Augmented Thor Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted the stack into LEO; light leaks damaged some of the Corona film.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 673 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 27 June 1963, 00:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-025
- Launches in 1963
- 34th of 69
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